Quick programming note (Yes, I'll be here more often lol): I am moving up I-5 to join the amazing crew at The Seattle Times to become an assistant metro editor, editing morning breaking news starting at 6 a.m. I start next month -- And moving up to Seattle at the end of March.
At UCLA, three disability specialists served 3,843 students -- 1,281 students per specialist. That's nearly 10 times the national average. Students no longer get personalized support. A fantastic investigation by the Daily Bruin's enterprise team. -> dailybruin.com/2024/02/02/i...
Out of the nine total disability specialist positions the Center for Accessible Education typically maintains, only three were filled at the start of the 2023-2024 academic year.
Oh shoot, BlueSky is now open to everyone?!?!
I'm walking out with my Los Angeles Times Guild colleagues today because I want to save as many jobs as possible and I want those who are forced to leave to get a fair deal. Please read the Guild's statement docs.google.com/document/d/1...
i’ve said it before, i’ll say it again: the trolley problem has an incredibly simple and elegant solution. first you stop the trolley, then you help the people off the tracks. i figured it out when i was 4
Oh God, I am so sorry for this
This is the funniest thing to happen on Twitter in its existence. Grok is pissing off the only people willing to pay for it
(My personal takeaway, as someone who went through this 10 years ago and just shocked by how even more competitive college admission has gotten even since then, is that people should have a fundamental reflection on what the college admissions look like nowadays...)
"And I want you to know that you have nothing to be ashamed of. We are the only ones who know what it was like to grow up with this hair and these features and these families. Remember, no one can tell you who you are. You get to decide."
I leave this thread with Frank's column I've been thinking about the whole time: "Pursuing prestige is different from pursuing an education or pursuing justice, and we need to try to understand that." www.latimes.com/california/s...
Asian American families focus too much on getting their kids onto schools like Harvard. First let them be people.